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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bell, Dean Phillip
• Briggs, Robin
• Edwards, Kathryn A
• Edwards, Kathryn A[Herausgeber]
• Ferber, Sarah
• Gordon, Bruce
• Jacobson Schutte, Anne
• Jacques-Lefèvre, Nicole
• Krampl, Ulrike
• Lederer, David
• Midelfort, H. C. Erik
• Nalle, Sara T

Titel

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits : Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

Ort / Verlag

University Park, PA : Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2021]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe